Over the years women have been pushing for the same equality as men. Women are typically looked down upon and are ignored when it come to standing up for their rights. So what do women do in order to be heard? In the 1960s an organization called the National Organization for Women was established. This organizations main focus is to eliminate discrimination in the workplace, secure abortion, birth control and reproductive rights for all women, and end all forms of violence towards women.

The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States and was founded in 1966 by an author named Betty Friedan. Friedan wrote NOWs official mission statement which is “to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities there of in truly equal partnership with men”. NOW has 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states. To this day NOW is constantly planning events and walks to improve women equality.

The first reason why NOW is such an important organization is because it focuses on the discrimination towards women in the work place. Women have been discriminated from many different jobs for years. Men believe that women aren’t as capable as they are therefore women are denied by many different industries and companies. Though women have come such a long way since the 1960s women are still not paid as much as men and are still dealing with discrimination. Take Wal-Mart for example. One of the largest lawsuits in U.S. history known as Wal-Mart V. Dukes, filed by 1.5 million women employees who were discriminated while working for this retail. A lady named Betty Dukes who felt that she was being discriminated due to her sex started this lawsuit. Unfortunately, Wal-Mart won the case because they are too big of a corporation to sue and there was no actual evidence of...

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When I found out that I have to write about 60’s women liberation I though it is going to be very hard for me but when I research about the title I found lot of similarity between 60’s women life and women life write now in my country(Iran). Women in Iran have to take care of their children and their husband, even if they get a job it will be a low job with lower salary than men, they can’t be a pilot or judge, even if they go to college and educate they will end up taking care of children. All these similarities help me to understand women life better in 60’s.
Before I writing about what happen in 60’s, in this paper I like to point out my opinions about why women life be like that before liberation, why it’s had to change and why the change start in 60’s.
Long before we call our self’s civilized we lived as a hunter gatherers. Since average men were stronger, they tend to hunt and gather resources for survival. When men came from long hunt, women take thread wounds and take care of men. Not many children had a chance to become adults, because of that women usually were pregnant and take care of whom that survived until they grow up to become a hunter or pregnant. Lots changed from that time, but they way of living for women were one of...

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The U.S. government does not fund the organization, nor is it affiliated with any particular political party. The organization is divided into state chapters and memberships are offered to provide local, state and national alerts on legal, political, social and economic issues related to eliminating sexism in our country. Members participate in marches, rallies, and demonstrations to...